This question is mainly aimed at those studying in medical/biological sciences, and probably also those in other branches of science too. I'm currently trying to create graphs out of my first set of data, and I was wondering what packages people use for this. We've had a week of tutoring on SPSS, mainly on stats though, and I still find it very hard to use. Additionally, no one I know in my area seems to use it - the preferences seem to be either Excel or GraphPad Prism, which I don't have access to. I'm comfortable using Excel, but some people seem to look down on it and claim it's not powerful enough. Is this true? Should I struggle along with SPSS, or use Excel?